Budget tyres are landfill. I’ve got a set of Excellons on my 118d and they are shit. I buy part worn proper tyres. 5 or 6mm and a pair at a time. I bought a pair of 225/50x16 Goodyears with 6mm for £60 plus a tenner to fit and balance. I haven't found anywhere decent near me that sells part worns. ...

Budget tyres are landfill. I’ve got a set of Excellons on my 118d and they are shit.

I buy part worn proper tyres. 5 or 6mm and a pair at a time. I bought a pair of 225/50x16 Goodyears with 6mm for £60 plus a tenner to fit and balance.

That’ll do!

The Canadian Ford plant built lots of RHD US Fords. Newfoundland drove on the left after WW2 - around 1950.

The Vauxhall would do me.

The overfuelling is a strange one - I thought a 1979 Royale 2.8 would have a Solex 4A1 carb? Opels had Bosch L Jetronic.

EV fires and the incredible cost of repair means that EV insurance has more than quadrupled. Some say a ten fold increase - that's what has led to the insurance hikes for proper cars. I'm waiting for a channel tunnel EV fire or a P&O being evacuated mid channel. Only then will folk wake up and s...

An Invacar has just done a three point turn outside my house. Fucking thing and the bastard noise it made.

You may need a new intercooler as well. Serious turbo failure fills them with oil and bits of shit. You can try washing it out with petrol or cheap thinners. The exhaust will have oil in as well that will take a while to burn off. Oddly enough I saw a silver 54 plate E320CDI Estate shit its turbo th...

VAG ABS pump you don't have to replace as you can just do the valve block. If you get the same model numbers it should have the correct coding. Even if it doesn't, most diag tools can do it and knock-off VCDS is cheap to get Not quite. Lots of VAG ABS modules have the same ATE part number - it mean...

Mark 5 Golfs - rotten front wings, rotten sills plus VAG nonsense. Such as the cambelt tensioner stud that due to fine thread and shallow depth will either break off after a belt change if not changed, or will pull the threads of the head if replacement is attempted. ABS pump failure can be a nightm...